mining-transports

Updated: May 23, 2025

The Russians ultimately retreated towards the harbour with the intention of drawing the Japanese under closer fire of the land batteries, but the Japanese fleet declined to follow after them, and, instead, steamed away. The Yenisei, one of the two mining-transports included in their fleet, struck a mine and sank so rapidly in Talien Bay that ninety-six of her crew perished.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era